Abstract��This paper attempts to study a private school teacher's diary of forty years when the Imperial Examination was being abolished in the late Qing Dynasty, and to present the power-net in which he was controlled by Culture-State-Society. It is expected that the deep relationship between Scholars and State will be brightened in this study. The whole paper falls into three parts. In the first part as "Depression ", the study is arranged on how the imperial examination, as a rigorous institution, to docile teachers' career then and contort a variety of relationships between Education, State and Teachers. In the second part as” Guard Ideal" and the third part as "Dead End”, it will be explored how the Gentlemen' habitude developed in studying the Great Books, as a soft cultural power, to admonish the teacher's soul and spiritual world.
2002, Vol. 3 
